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for the missionary in daily contact with rival faiths, almost more 

 than for ministers in lands where Christianity is more or less 

 established. I wish I had time to draw out this point into instances. 



3. In another direction Science has greatly strengthened ability 

 to represent Christianity as a continuously historical religion, which 

 is not only founded and built up throughout on historical facts, but 

 which alone gives one persistent unifying meaning to the whole 

 history of mankind in every locality, type, and age. This is a 

 contribution of almost equal value for missionary work whether 

 amongst a people like the Chinese, with a constitutional reverence 

 for history and continuous historical relationships, or amongst the 

 Brahmins of India, who have so recently become keenly alive to 

 their losses through neglect of the historical faculty hitherto. 



4. However antagonistic Science may at one time and in certain 

 minds have thought herself towards many of the Christian doctrines, 

 it is not so now : the leaders of Science in the present day recognise 

 the limits to scientific research, and largely acknowledge that those 

 limits bring us to a line where they find Christian truths to be 

 probable and possible — which is wellnigh all that the Christian 

 apologist claims to show. Here, then, again we find a sisterly 

 relationship between Science and Christianity — and therefore a 

 valuable assistance from the former to the work of the missionary 

 among the more literate non-Christian races. Indeed it is for work 

 among the more intellectual peoples that the relationship of Science 

 comes in more especially, rather than for that among the more 

 barbarous. At the same time, as Mr. Baylis' paper points out, 

 amongst the latter — no less than the former — the contribution of 

 Science enters with full force into the work of Medical Missions ; 

 and I would add, in many branches of what are called Industrial 

 Missions also. 



5. For his own personal equipment, apart from his presentation 

 of the Christian system to others. Science has brought much aid to 

 the missionary : e.g. — 



(a) One of his occasional temptations amidst specially backward 

 races lies in the opinion so often hastily adopted by the 

 globe-trotter or the worldly-minded employer of native 

 labour, that the barbarous peoples may, after all, be of a 

 diff'erent species from ourselves. But here Science — now 

 well-nigh unanimous on the subject — comes in with steady 



